The Web Manosphere…and the revolt of the Beta-men

The Red Pill, Pick-up Artists, the Beta Uprising and MGTOW [Men Going Their Own Way] – these are some of rallying loci of anti-feminist online subcultures, where lonely social misfits cheer for murderers and fans abound for Donald Trump. Angela Nagle has spent years analyzing what she sees as the geeky new sexism espoused by a gender-fluid generation.

Nagle is an Irish journalist whose doctoral research was about sexism on the internet.

Credits:

Adapted for WINGS from an episode of Women on the Line, Australia’s national community radio women’s program. Host/Producer for Women on the Line: Aoife Cooke; WINGS series producer, Frieda Werden.


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